Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

D&L Industries, through subsidiary D&L Polymer & Colours, Inc. (DLPC), has launched what it calls a “breakthrough” 100-percent abaca pellet designed for manufacturing more sustainable plastic products ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

MANILA, Philippines — D&L Industries, through subsidiary D&L Polymer & Colours Inc. (DLPC), is advancing its natural fiber innovation with the introduction of a 100 percent abaca pellet for use in ...

ORNL's invention may change plastic's environmental fate by rearranging polymeric building blocks to customize the properties of plastics. Molecular subunits link to produce polymer chains that can ...

Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today's "compostable" plastic bags, utensils and cup lids don't break down during ...

Compounding of plastic is a process that includes melt-blending of plastics with specific additives that are used to change the thermal, physical, aesthetic and electrical characteristics of the ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...